Incandescent electric lamp fixture



No. 625,609. Patented May 23, I899.

B. F. BOUT.

INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMP FIXTURE.

(Application filed Aug. 2, 1896.)

(No Model.)

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No. 625,609. Patent ed May 23, I899.

B. F. BOUT. INGANDESGENT ELECTRIC LAMP FIXTUBE.

(Application filed Aug. 2, 1898.)

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NlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. ROUT, OF STANFORD, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARY ELLA HEWITT, OF SAME PLACE.

INCANDESCENT-ELECTRlC-LAMP FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,609, dated May 23, 1899. Application filed August 2, 1898. Serial 1 (N modem To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, BENJAMIN F. Rour, of

I Stanford, in the county of Lincoln and State then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fixture embodying my invention with the adjustinglatch 19 omitted and showing the same as employed on a hanging lamp. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view.

Fig. 4. is a partial section and partial eleva-.

tion showing the parts as arranged for a standlampr Fig. 5 is an elevation of a portion thereof. Fig. 6 is a plan View thereof, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a portion of a shade-holding device employed.

Referring-to the drawings, 1 designates a support one end of which passes through and is secured to a casing-section 2, which forms part of the casing for a winding-drum, as will be hereinafter described. At the other end of the support 1 is aring 3, which is mounted to swing between arms 4:. Seated in the ring 3 is a funnel-shaped guide 5, consisting, preferably, of insulating materialsuch, for instance, as porcelain or hard rubberand through this guide the conductors 6 and 7 are passed. 7

The casing-section 2 consists of metal, hard rubber, or any other suitable material, and mounted on the section of the support 1,within the casing, is a winding-drum 8, which is connected by means of bolts 9 with a casing: section 10, consisting of anysuitable material and here. shown as funnel-shaped. A spring 11 has one end connected to the support 1, which it will be understood is stationary as to rotary movement, and the other end of said spring is attached to one of the bolts 9 of the drum designed to wind the conductors 6 and 7, which pass around a pulley 12, placed in an opening in the side Wall of the casing-section 2. 'It will therefore be seen that the drum and the casing-section 10 are designed to rotate relatively to the section 2 of the casing. The pulley 12 is mounted in the bifurcated end of a bar 13, which is connected to the inner side of the section 2 of the casing, and bearing upon the side of the drum 8, adjacent to said section 2 of the casing, are

rollers 14:,supportedin brackets secured to the section 2 of the casing.

It will be seen that the end of the bar 13 opposite that to which the pulley 12 is connected is curved over the flanged portion of the drum 8, and this curved portion is designed to prevent the conductors 6 and 7 from slipping ofi the drum. The inner ends of the conductors 6 and 7 extend through a rubber tube 15 and have the usual connections with circuit closing or controlling devices in the socket 16, designed to receive the base of the lamp 17. To accommodate the socket 16 to varying diameters or sizes of lamp-bases, I provide it with spring-yielding fingers 18.

-Pivoted to the outer side of the section 2 of the casing is a latch or hook 19, designed to be engaged with the conductors, which are twisted together to hold the drum from rota-. tion after the fixture shall have been adjust ed to its desired position.

Rigidly secured to the support 1 is a plate 20, provided with radial slots through which cated in Fig. 4. During the adjustment of the lamp the guide 5 will swing and accommodate itself to the angle or deflections of the conductors, so that there will be little or no danger of injuring the insulating material on the conductors by abrasion.

In operation when the device is used as a hanging lamp it may be drawn downward, causing the drum to rotate in a direction to unwind the conductors, and this movement will of course wind the spring 11. When the lamp is in its preferred position, the latch or hook 19 is to be engaged with the cables and securely hold the parts as adjusted. Upon releasing the cable from the latch or hook the spring by expanding will wind the conductors on the drum, and consequently draw the lamp upward.

When the lamp is used as a standing lamp, it is designed to employ a suitable shade therewith, and preferably, as shown in the drawings, this shade will have a permanent connection with the fixture. The shade 23 may be made of metal, porcelain, or any other material which is suitable. Diametrically opposite-metal straps 24 have their lower ends turned inward to receive the lower ends of the shade, and the upper ends of these straps have screwthreaded portions 25, which pass through openings in clips 26, which engage over the top edge of the shade, and above these clips nuts 27 are engaged with the screwthreaded portions of the straps. The shade is supported by arms each consisting of two telescopic sections 28 and 29. The section 28 of the arm has swinging connection with the lower end of the strap 24, and the section 29' spring-latches 33, the ends of which are connected to the loops 31 and are designed to engage over the loops 32, as plainly indicated in Fig. 4. l

In Fig. 4 the full lines show the position of the parts when the shade isin use on the standing lamp. Dotted lines in Fig. 4c show it as moved to a position adjacent to the section 10 of the casing. To prevent the shade from fallingdownward when thelampis suspended, as in Figs. 1 and 2, I employ the finger 34:, which has pivotal connection with the band or clip 30 and is designed to be swung outward, so that the shade may rest thereon.

-It is obvious that a lamp-fixture embodying my invention may be made as ornamental as desired, and as the greater portion of the conducting-wires are within the casing during the gaytthey will be fully protected from dirt or Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A lamp-fixture, comprising a support, a casing-section rigidly mounted on said support, a casing-section mounted to rotate relatively to the fixed section, a drum secured to the rotatable section and designed to receive and wind the electric conductors, a spring for moving the drum and rotatable section in one direction, and a socket on the rotatable section for receiving the base of an electric lamp, substantially as specified.

2. An incandescent-electric lamp fixture,

comprising asupport, acasing-section rigidly ing through its side wall, a pulley in said open- :ing a drum mounted to rotate on the support within the casing, acasing-sectionsecured to 'said drum, a spring for rotating the drum in f one direction, a roller aroundwhich the con- I, dnctors are designed to pass when extended through the opening in the first-named casin g-section, and rollers supported by said firsti named casing-section and bearing upon the idrum, substantially as specified. I 3. An incandescent-lamp fixture, comprisj ing a support, a'c'asin'g-s'ection rigidly mounted on said support, a drum mounted to rotate ion the support within the casing, a casingisection secured to the drum, a spring for ro= tating the drum in one direction, a plate at- ,tached to the support outside the casingand !having an opening, a plate or disk mounted i to slide on the support, and legs having swingfing connection with said disk and movable through openings in the plate secured to the J support, substantially as specified.

4. An incandescent-lamp fixture, comprising a support, a casing-section rigidly mount- 1 ed on said support and having an opening'for the passage of conductors, a guide mounted to swing on the support and through which the conductors pass, a winding-drum on the support within the casing and 011 which the conductors wind, and a casing-section secured to said drum, substantially as specified.

5. An incandescent-lamp fixture, comprising a support, a casing, a drum mounted to rotate on the support Within the casing, a spring for rotating said drum in one direction, and a shade having adjustable connection with the casing, substantially as specified.

6. An incandescent-lamp fixture, comprising a support, a casing, a winding-drum in the casing, arms consisting of telescopic sections and having pivotal connection with a clip on a socket extension of the casing, and a shade having pivotal connection with said arms, substantially as specified.

7. In a lamp fixture, a casing having a socket to receive an incandescent lamp, a collar or clip secured to said socket, arms con- I sisting eachof two sections mounted to slide one relatively'to the other, one section of each arm having pivotal connection with said col connected to said support and having an open L. I I I lar or clip, and a shade having pivotal connectionwith the other sections of said arms, substantially as specified.

8. An incandescent-lamp fixture, comprising a casing, a socket on said casing, a clip or collar engaging around said socket, shadesupporting arms each consisting of two sections, one section having pivotal connection with the clamp or collar and each section having a loop to engage around the other section, 10 a spring-latch for engaging with the loops to hold the arm-sections as extended,and a shade having pivotal connection with the arms, substantially as specified.

BENJAMIN F. ROUT.

Witnesses:

J. H. BOUT, J C. I. BAILEY 

